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The next morning you woke up sore, cold, and hungry. The hunger was the worst part, the cramping pains from not eating at all yesterday is finally catching up to you.
You have to pee so bad you just want someone to come down here, you prefer Zeke so you call out for him.
“Hello? Zeke, anyone, please I’m hungry!” You yell trying to get anyone’s attention
“Zeke!”
“ I need to pee! Hello?” Saying it louder
You kept yelling and pausing to see if you can hear anyone coming. Finally you start hearing footsteps from above making their way to the basement. Then the door unlocking, the lights flick on and you see Eren making his way down the steps.
“Oh my fucking god, what do you want?” He sounded very annoyed and sleepy.
“ I have to pee, please can I use the bathroom.”
“That’s what you woke me up for? It’s six in the morning.” Pushing his messy hair out of the way as he spoke.
“I’m sorry I- I just really have to go.”
He pinched the bridge of his nose getting more annoyed, “ ugh fine!”
He made his way over to you and unlocked the collar from you neck.
“ Alright, come on. And hurry up! I want to go back to bed. ” He motioned his hands to the bathroom.
You got up quickly and made your way to the bathroom. After using the bathroom you stopped at the sink, washed your hands and drank some water.
You opened the door and saw him standing there arms crossed waiting for you to come back.
“ Let’s go I don’t have all day.”
You rushed back to the spot you were before trying not to make him mad. He hooks it back on you and puts the key back into his pocket. You noticed he’s not being as aggressive with you right now so you ask him a question.
“ Will you umm… maybe tell Zeke when he wakes up that I need to see him… may-“
Eren turns around and cuts you off, “What the fu- no!” He yells in disbelief he puts his palms to his face.
You purse out lips together awkwardly and look down. “ Okay.”
“Any other dumb questions before I go back up?!”
Knowing that’s a rhetorical question you answer back, “ no…sorry.”
He turns back around and goes up back upstairs mumbling curse words to himself then shuts the lights off on you.
Wide awake and not knowing what to do you start to think back when Eren told you it was the time, he said it was six. I’ve only got two more hours or so to go before Zeke wakes up to give me breakfast. I can convince him to let me out of the shit place, but only if Eren’s not with him.
God I hate Eren so much, he’s such a dick. I know Zeke can be kind. He’s showed me, but when he’s around Eren he’s a different person.
“ Fuck Eren.” You whisper because you’re to scared to say it to loud.
Then your mind shifts to Pieck you start to smile. I miss her…maybe she’ll bring me my breakfast today. That would be nice, I can’t wait to talk to her, she always knows how to cheer me up. Well as much as she can in my situation.
You scoot back against the wall so you can lean against something. You put rest the back of your head on the wall and let out a loud sigh of boredom. You look up at the ceiling and roll your eyes, you’re so annoyed with yourself. Why did I have to do something so stupid, you start thinking back when you attacked Eren. I should have know better, but something about him just pisses me off.
You feel like you’ve been thinking for hours all you can hear is your stomach growling at you for food. Suddenly you start to hear noises other than your stomach. It’s coming from upstairs. You sat up straight and smiled, it’s like music to your ears. You kept hearing footsteps like they were approaching the basement but the door would never open. You heard people talking but couldn’t make out what they were saying. They were laughing and having a good time while you were suffering down here all alone and hungry.
You waited, and waited, and waited. No one came for you.
You slowly sank back down pushed you knees to your chest, rested your arms on them and buried your face. No one’s coming for you. They’re going to leave you down here again alone with no food, and no water. Is Zeke that mad at me? Does he not want me anymore? You started to weep.
“ Please… someone…anyone… I’m so alone.”
You mumble to yourself, still crying, hoping someone would answer your prayers.
As if someone was listening to you, the door opened. You shot your head up and started wiping away the tears and sniffling your nose. The lights flick on, you blink trying to adjust your eyes to the light. When they finally do, you see Pieck, gazing down at you with concern.
“Pieck! I’ve miss you!”
Your face lights up you stand up and smile, but you stand up too fast and get really lightheaded and grab on the wall for balance.
She came rushing up to you, grabbing you to ensure you don’t pass out and hit your head. When you don’t, she gave you hug and a kiss on the check. She lets you go and started grabbing things out of her bag she brought with her.
“ I’m so exited to see you, where have you been?!”
“Shh, they don’t know I’m down here. I’ve missed you too.” Blowing you a quick kiss. “ I’m sorry I’ve been gone for a while. I heard a little bit about what’s going on andI brought a bacon egg sandwich. I know it’s not a lot but it’s all I could grab I was in a hurry so eat fas-“
You didn’t give her time to finish you took the food she was handing you and devoured it.
“How long has it been since you’ve had food?” She asked with a concerning look.
“ Umm what time is it?”
“It’s one o’clock.”
“So about a day and a half. Not too long but I haven’t gone without meals in a while so I’m starving.”
“Still that’s so cruel, I’m sorry I wasn’t here sooner.” She said in a guilty voice.
“ It’s okay Pieck I understand.” Trying to talk with a mouth full of food. “ You didn’t bring water did you?”
“Ohh, yes I did sorry, here you go.” She handed you a bottle of water.
You chugged the water and handed it back to her. “ Thank you so much Pieck, I really don’t know what I would do without you here with me.”
“You’re welcome love.” Then she pulled you in for another hug.
You both heard the front door shut and she pulled away from you, “ they’re back. I’ve gotta go, I’m sorry!” She grabbed her stuff and hurried up the stairs turning off the lights and locking the door back up.
She actually risked herself to come down here and help me. You remember back when she told you should wouldn’t ever do that for you. You guys have grown so close since you first met and it makes you happy. You’ve got someone here that’s looking out for you.
After eating you feel so much better, now you’re just cold, alone, and bored. You sit back into the fetal position to warm yourself up again. Still hoping you’ll see Zeke today, you wished you would have asked Pieck to talk to him maybe she could change his mind. She’s pretty good at that.
-Pov Zeke-
“Do whatever you want. I’m going upstairs. ”
After shutting the basement door he leans his back against it and begins to think to himself. He doesn’t want to share you, he wanted you all to himself. Thinking about Eren touching all over you pisses him off, but why? He doesn’t love you. Does he? He hears something strange. He presses his ear to the door to see if he can hear anything, and he does, he hears you pleading Eren not to do this. He wants to go down there and take you away from him.
How, wait no, when did he develop such intense feelings for you. He walks finally walks away from the door to go upstairs and work on some stuff in his office. He needs to get you out of his head.
Getting to his office, he plops down in his comfy office chair and lights up another cigarette and begins working. About three hours went by when he heard a knock on his office door. He looks up from his work and he sees Eren standing there with his hands in his pockets leaning against the door frame.
“Hey, dinners ready.”
“Okay.”
Eren looks at him suspiciously, “ what’s your problem?”
“Nothing.”
Eren walks into his office, shuts the door and takes a seat in front of him.
“ Then why are you being so short with me?”
Not wanting to respond to his question, so he put his attention back down at his paper work and continue filling stuff out.
Eren notices and speaks again, “ Is it because of her? Man you actually like her, don’t you?” He started laughing.
Looking up from his work glaring at him saying, “ I don’t know if I do…just leave it alone Eren.”
“Awe come on, brother you can tell me!”
“Can I?” Saying it sarcastically and dropping the pen and looking at him seriously.
“Alright fine! I won’t touch her anymore.” He throws his hand up in defeat. “ But I can’t promise you anything if she opens up her whore mouth to me again.” He said standing up, “ now come on stop being grumpy and let’s go eat.”
“Alright fine.” He stands up and they both walk to the kitchen. He see Reiner, Bert, Porco, and Pieck is sitting at the table. There are three empty chairs left one for Eren, Annie, and him.
They both sat down at the table and he turned to Pieck sitting next to him, “where’s Annie at?”
“Not sure…she said she was going out on a date with someone.” Saying it loud enough for Berthold to hear.
Reiner spoke up, “ you hear that Bert, you just need to ask her out already!” He said slapping him on the back and smiling!
“ Reiner stop, you don’t have to talk so loud!” Berthold said putting his face in his hands embarrassed.
“ Everyone already knows you’re crushing hard for her, stop being a pussy and ask her out!” Reiner said laughing.
“ I will on my own time Reiner.” Bert said rolling his eyes.
Everyone started laughing. It was a good dinner almost having everyone there. Then he finds himself thinking about you again wishing you were apart of this talking and laughing. He misses your smile.
Finishing his dinner he got up and made his way to the kitchen and put his plate in the sink. He made his way to the basement door and was about to start unlocking then he stopped. He thought about how you probably didn’t want to see him. Why would you? After he just left you with Eren. Feeling to guilty to look at you right now he goes upstairs to his room. After showering he laid down in bed.
Not able to sleep he laid there thinking about what you’re doing right now. Probably sitting there sad, cold and alone. He wants to hold your small body and comfort you. He liked holding you close to him, it felt nice. But did you like it? Probably not. You are his prisoner after all, but the way you smile a him made him forget that you were being held here by force.
Maybe if she were to fall in love with me, she would want to stay willingly. He smiled at that thought of you loving him back. The only other person who loved him was his brother, and that was a different kind of love. He wanted a woman’s touch, but not just any woman. He wanted your touch.
He came to his senses. Knowing it’s just wishful thinking, you would never love him after everything that he’s done to you. How could you? Loving someone as broken as him, he doesn’t deserve anyone after everything he’s done.
His brother was the only one that could ever understand him. Knowing his brother loves him for who he is and what he is, brings comfort to him. He’s not alone in this fucked up world. He will always have Eren.
The next morning he could have sworn he heard you calling his name but it felt like it was only a dream. He got up and got ready for the day, wearing black slacks, nice dress shoes
And a white button up shirt the top of it exposing it his chest. He gave him self one last look in the mirror and left the room. He walked down stairs to get some coffee and a snack for breakfast. When he got to the kitchen Pieck was already there making breakfast.
“ Hey Zeke how’d you sleep?” Pieck asked while flipping a pancake.
“Ehh, okay I guess…what about you?”
“I slept pretty good actually, oh and I made a plate for your girl but she wasn’t in her room.”
“Oh yeah, she tried to attack Eren so she is getting punished for it.”
“Oh, well…what did Eren do to provoke her?” She questioned.
“ It doesn’t matter she shouldn’t be doing shit like that anyways.” He said taking the plate of food from Pieck.
Eren enters the room, “ I heard my name?” He walks past Pieck and steals a piece of bacon.
Pieck begins talking, “ yeah we were about how much of a little shit you are.” She said rolling her eyes.
“ Oh really? We should be talking about how much of a bitch you are.” He said slightly laughing.
“ Fine! if I’m so much of a bitch then give me back my food that I cooked.” She said snatching the plate of food from his hands.
“Wait! I take it back, toothpieck!” Eren said reaching for his food. She finally gives it back to him.
The group started talking and joking around, then Bert walks into the kitchen he started stretching and yawning from just waking up,“ Good morning everyone, and umm… have you guys seen Reiner at all?
The group gave a few confused glances to each to each other but no response came. “No, I haven’t. I actually went to bed kind of early last night.” Zeke exclaimed, strolling closer to the windows, then pulling the blinds open to let in some sun, “But I’m sure he’s around here somewh- oh my god.” He puts his hand on his forehead in disbelief.
“What’s wrong?” Pieck walk up to the window to see what Zeke was looking at.
“Goddammit.” Zeke retorts. Pieck brings her fingers to pinch the bridge of her nose.
“ Umm…Bert we found him.” Pieck said turning to Berthold.
“ Oh no, is he outside? Again? That’s the third time this month…” Bertholdt sighs. “This is why we should hide the alcohol from him.” Berthold said, approaching the window.
The three stare at the unconscious Reiner, still sprawled out on the lawn sleeping with a bottle of whiskey in his hand still.
Zeke sighs heavily at his foolish comrade. He was one of the nine titans, a hardened war criminal with countless innocent lives under his belt. How could he act so fucking foolish?
“ Will you guys help me get him inside? He’s so heavy.” Bert says, turning towards the group.
Eren shakes head rapidly, “I’m not helping. That’s all you, Bert.”
“ Yeah… I’m out too. Sorry Bert.” Pieck said shrugging.
“ Oh come on guys please!” Berthold said begging now.
“ I’ll help come on.” Zeke said then turned to Eren, “ come on Eren he’s a big dude just help grab his legs.”
“Oooo, I got a better idea!” Eren walks outside and Bert and Zeke follow.
Eren walks over to the hose and turns it on and walks up to Reiner and starts pouring freezing water all over him he’s laughing manically doing it. “Heheh”
Reiner started making groggy noises as he tries to wake, “H ey! Stop! I’m up! I’m up! Stop!”
“What the hell happened last night?” Zeke said.
“Yeah, why are you sleeping outside?” Eren shouted.
Reiner stands up swaying from still being somewhat drunk, “ uhh, well you see there was this woman…her name was Krista…and I loved her!”
“Her name isn’t Krista anymore Reiner it’s Historia.” Bert explained.
“ She will always be Krista to me!” He snapped at Berthold.
“ In love again?” Eren raised his eyebrows.
“ This time was different! She was so happy all the time and so sweet, but that bitch Ymir took her from me.” He said dramatically.
“ Maybe one day she’ll love you back Reiner!” Bert said patting him on the back, “ come on let’s go inside.”
“ Yeah right.” Eren said underneath his breath.
“ Hey! I heard that, at least I can love you freak!” Reiner yelled at Eren.
“ I can love, you idiot. I love myself.” Eren said confidently.
“Now, now children, calm down.” Zeke said calmly. “We need to get Reiner back inside. I don’t know about the rest of you, but I have actual things to do today besides lounging around all day and wasting time.” Zeke said, looking from Eren to Bert, then to Reiner.
Bert grabbed Reiner on one side and Zeke grab the other to help him not trip over everything while walking inside.
“ Guys…I think I’m going to be sick.” Reiner yelled
“ Oh god. Get him to that bathroom, let’s go Bert.” Zeke started walking faster with Reiner.
“ Don’t throw up yet Reiner, please just hold it in!”
“Eww bro don’t throw up!” Eren butted in.
Reiner begins projectile vomiting and everyone jumps away from him trying not to get hit by it.
“ What the fu-“ Eren tries to get out but starts gagging.
That makes Bert gag then Zeke, then Eren again.
“ Guys I’m so sor-“ Reiner throws up again.
“ That’s it! I’m leaving him!” Eren threw his hands up in defeat and went inside.
After he was finally done Zeke and Bert helped him the rest of the way upstairs. After sometime of helping Reiner Zeke went back to his office to get some work done.
He started to think about you again. I wonder if she’s okay she hasn’t eaten anything, I need to go see he r, he thinks. He isn’t know sure he can bring himself to do it. He feels guilty knowing he let Eren do that to you. He should have been the only one allowed to touch you. I mean you did belong to him. He couldn’t get you off his mind while he was working
Five o’clock came around when he heard a knock at the door. It was Pieck.
“ Hey. Dinners ready if you want to come down, not everyone is here though, so it won’t be a full table tonight.”
Zeke pulled away from his desk, glancing up at Pieck with a slight grimace.
“Yeah I’ll be down in a second.” He sounded agitated and Pieck quickly noticed.
“ Everything okay?” She said in a concerned voice.
“ Yeah I’ve just….I don’t know been thinking about things.” He took his glasses off and rubbed his face, trying get out of his own head.
“ You know you can talk to me if you need to. I’m not sure if you realize, but girls tend to listen better than men, no offense.” Pieck said making her way into the room.
“It’s just…I let Eren do something bad when I shouldn’t of. I know I’m not his dad, but I should be able to ring in his bad behavior. But I failed. And now I don’t know what to do, Pieck.”
Pieck sighs and pulls out a chair and sits in front of him, “ you’re his older brother, he looks up to you. Eren’s never seen you show love towards anyone else other than him. Maybe he’s jealous?”
Zeke scoffs at Pieck’s foolish assumption.
“Love!? I don’t love her!”
Pieck says nothing, just continuing to stare. Zeke only grows more defensive.
“ I don’t!” Trying to convince himself.
“Zeke. It’s time to be honest with yourself. You’ve been in denial about her for too long. You know I’m right.”
Zeke’s casts his gaze to the floor, as if in thought.
“I mean…why else would you keep her alive for this long, even when it was inconvenient for you? Why would you waste those all those medical supplies on someone who you didn’t care about?”
Zeke stays quiet, letting Pieck’s words run circles inside his head.
Love? Could he truly love someone else besides Eren? Someone so weak and pitiful?
Some annoying little island devil?
“Why else would you have kept her alive for this long?”
Zeke went still, rigid. Why had he kept you alive this long? It couldn’t have been for himself, because you barely offered up anything for him. You weren’t strong, or even that smart. You constantly found yourself in trouble and we’re always, always making trouble for Zeke.
You were truly an inconvenient little shit, but he didn’t want to see you die. Not yet.
Was Pieck correct? Was he truly in love with you?
An epiphany is dropped on Zeke in that moment. All that time and effort, all those little dates he had planned and the amazing food he had cooked for you. He finally understood, he loved you. It wasn’t something he could deny any longer.
He missed you like crazy. He longed for you gaze and your touch. He wanted so badly to just rush into the basement and throw you into his arms and take you to bed. To wrap you in gentle cloth and hold you forever.
“What have I done, Pieck?” Zeke chokes, eyes wide and mouth slightly ajar.
Zeke doesn’t notice, but from where’s she’s sat, a sly smile tugs at her lips. He’s playing right into her hands.
The plan to get you out of here was unraveling nicely.
“She’s still down there you know.” Pieck says shyly, koi.
He thinks for a moment and reaches for the side drawer and opens it. Searches for your key to unlock your collar that’s around your neck. He can’t find it. He’s sure he left it here.
Where is it?
Pieck had since moved her way towards the door, turning to glance at the blonde shuffling through his desk.
Another brilliant idea came to her. Her head turns toward Zeke and she spoke, “O
h, and by the way I heard Eren in your office earlier. It sounded like he was looking for something.”
Zeke’s eyes shifted up to the Cart, “how did you know it was Eren?”
Oh. I just knew. Nobody else in this house is that fucking noisy. Or angry at 6am.”
Zeke sighs, accepting her answer.
“ Thanks Pieck.” He responded back.
After she walked out the door he left right after and went to Eren’s room. Approaching his door he smelled weed. He knocked gently and waited for an answer.
Choking came from the other side, “ come in.”
Zeke opened the door and smoke came rolling out swatting at the air, “ Geeeez, open a window.”
“ Sorry bout that.” Eren said passing the blunt to Zeke.
He took a few puffs to calm his nerves, he passes it back to Eren, “Hey, Eren?”
”What?” Eren says before huffing in more smoke.
You didn’t go through my drawers this morning, did you?”
“Oh. Yeah.”
”May I ask why?” Passive aggressiveness clear in his tone.
Eren began coughing and tapping the blunt to get the ash off, “That dumb bitch, that’s why. y our girl was yelling at, like, six in the morning and you didn’t get up. So I went to deal with her myself.”
”Did you hurt her…?”
Eren scoffs in a dramatic way, “Of course not, Zeke. You told me not to touch her, remember?” Eren says sweetly, sarcastically.
”Nah, I just unchained her to let her pee. Then I yelled at her to shut the hell up so I could go back to sleep. Did I hurt her? No. Did I want to? Well….”
”Waking me up would’ve been easier, you know. I can at least handle her outbursts better than you can.”
”Don’t you remember her last little outburst, brother? How you left her all alone with me?”
”Yeah, of course I remember. But that won’t happen again. You obviously can’t be trusted to handle yourself with the prisoners here. You’re too immature, Eren.”
”Immature?” Eren laughs at his brother, “at least I’m not falling in love with some disgusting island devil. Pathetic.”
“I’m not going to argue with you or listen your psychotic delusions.” Zeke takes a breath, calming his slowly racing pulse.
“Next time wake me up.”
“Yeah, got it.” Eren slightly rolls his eyes, bringing the head of the blunt back to his lips.
“Oh, and open a fucking window.”
Eren flips Zeke off as he exits the bedroom.
Zeke makes his way to the basement door. He begins unlocking it and walking down the stairs, he flicks on the light and sees you leaning against the wall trying to readjust your eyes to see how’s standing by the stairs.
You look absolutely terrible. Dark shadows surround your eyes, making you appear weak and tired. Subtle bruises paint your arms and legs that aren’t from Zeke. He can only assume that Eren had a little too much fun with you.
From where he’s standing, he can already see the fresh tears welling in your eyes. Your mouth falls open to speak.
“Zeke, I’m so sorry, please, please let me go back upstairs! I won’t mess up again, I’ll be good I swear!” You said getting up and walking to him but the chain isn’t long enough so it jerks you back a little.
He walks over to you, moving to unlock the metal leash around your neck before halting.
“If you want to come back upstairs, there’s just one thing I need you to do for me.”
You wince at that, unsure if you want to find out what he wants now. Their “favors” always seem to leave you with fresh bruises. But if it meant getting out of here, you’d hear what he had to say.
“W-What do I have to do?” You say defeated.
“Tell me that you belong to me. That you’re mine and no one else’s.”
What?
What did he just say?
“If you can do that, I’ll take you back upstairs. If you can’t, I’ll leave you down here for a few more hours to let you ponder your options. It’s up to you, sweetheart.”
Zeke wants you to swear yourself to him, like you’ve had any choice in this situation. You’ve been his, up until two days ago.
When Eren had forced his way down your throat.
Which he had wholeheartedly allowed.
He had made no attempt to stop his brother, and that must’ve came back to bite him in the ass. Now he wants you all for himself. To be his girl only, for however long he plans to keep you alive for.
The though both comforts and terrifies you. But if this is what you need to do for survival, so be it.
“I’m yours.”
“Nobody else’s.”
“ Nobody else’s.”
He scoops you up into his arms, turns on his heels and makes his way for the stairs. He feels you relax more and more in his arms with every step up the stairs.
He knows you’re glad to be getting out. You’ll get to sleep in a real bed soon. You’ll get to see Pieck, who you know has grown to care for you.
He steps through the large door, before allowing it to shut behind him. He makes his way through the large mansion, passing different corridors before stopping in front of a familiar white door. Your room.
He enters and carries you closer to the bed, approaching the frame before lowering you to the mattress. He allows you a moment to find a comfortable position, and pulls the covers up over your small frame.
“Pieck is serving dinner right now, but I’ll tell her to set some aside for you to eat a little bit later. For now, just rest.”
He runs his fingers through your hair, massaging your scalp. He loves the way you relax into his touch, and he wants to stay with you like this forever.
He pulls away gently when he notices your eyes beginning to flutter rapidly, exhaustion finally catching up with you.
He stands to turn for the door, giving you once last glance before turning the door handle and leaving the room, gently closing the door behind him.